/ ~T ~ t / "T \ 4;' Publisher ALBERT SCHOENFIELD Editor SWIMMER BOB INGRAM International Editor PUBLISHED MONTHLY BOB GOFF THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR COMPETITIVE AQUATICS Circulation and Business Manager AGE GROUP = HIGH SCHOOL * COLLEGE FAYE SCHOENFIELD 8622 Bellanca Avenue, Los Angeles, Calif. 90045 • (213) 641-2727 or 641-2728 Art Director October 1975 • Volume 16 • Number 10 BOB TINNON Publisher's Assistant ARLENE KIRK Editorial Assistants MARK MERFELD On the Cover GEORGIA GASPER Andy Coan, only 17 and still in high school, al- ready has a world record and World Champion- ship title to his credit. He swims for Jack Nelson Circulation Assistants at the Ft. Lauderdale Swim Team and Pine Crest JUDY JACOB Prep School. As his coach says, the beauti- CHRISTY ARDAIZ ful thing about Andy is that he has just begun. (See story, page 10) OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF: (Photo by Chip Gane) National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association Pace ..................................................... 4 Andy Coan--Looking Back .................................. 10 &~tCAN How They Train Andy Coan .................................. 13 SW'~NGCUMCM~ S Swimmers' Diet ............................................ 17 American Swimming Two Years After Belgrade .................................... 19 Coaches Association Where Are They Now? ...................................... 20 Distance Swimming ........................................ 30 Female Swimmers--Not Always Sugar and Spice ............... 35 Long Distance Championships ............................... 37 Olympic Swimmers' Age Study ............................... 56 AAU Meets ................................................ 60 College Swimming Coaches For the Record ............................................. 71 Association of America Top International Meets ..................................... 99 Picture Page .............................................. 108 Vox Pop .................................................. 110 United States Swimming Foundation CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Daland. technical advisor; William Lippman, Jr., chairman, Senior AAU Swimming Published monthly by SWIMMING WORLD and Committee: Jack Kelly, chairman. 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The pace technique we be super for the synchronized team, but it didn't work out too look for is basic and it is the same for all strokes and distances well for the swimmers. over 200 yards or meters. But to teach pace there are several other A coach should try all the possibilities with pacing equipment. considerations that must be taken into account. If he doesn't like the results, it can always be sold. We have done The Pool this with several pieces of equipment. The first thing that a coach must do to teach pace is to set the When we get down to specific races, we have to train lif possi- pool equipment up correctly in the pool area. We have pace clocks ble) in the same length pool as the race. The conditioning can be placed in locations on either side of the pool at the end where done anywhere at all, in a 20 yard pool, a 33¼ yard pool, a 50 freestylers can see them before and after they flip the turns. The meter pool or a gym. You get something out of everything. But if clocks should not be where the swimmers have to strain to look a coach is really going to be specific, he should have the swim- and turn simultaneously. With backstrokers, there should be two mers work on pace in a facility the same length as pools where the more clocks at either end directly facing the swimmers so they biggest races of the year are going to be held. For a college or don't have to look to the side to get splits. Breaststrokers and high school coach, a 25 yard pool is fine. For the Olympics, a 50 butterfliers who can see the clocks at the end of the pool can use meter pool is a necessity. the same clocks as the backstrokers. This means that you have to Circles buy a couple of extra clocks so that all swimmers can see one Pace will often be determined by the lead swimmer in a circle. easily without breaking their technique. The swimmers capable of doing intelligent pace work will respond If the clock face is too small, the numbers are too light, or if to their own pace and the pace of a circle won't be a problem to there is a reflection, it doesn't do the swimmer any good to have them. There are, however, some swimmers who can't swim at any the clock on the deck. A coach must think about these things. pace other than the circle's pace. You have to try to educate these While clocks are probably the most important part of the equip- swimmers as you go along, but a coach can't force them to learn. ment needed to teach pace, the coach must have a stopwatch in It's a constant battle and the coach has to grade the program for his hand. It doesn't have to be used for a pressure situation and these individuals. the coach doesn't have to be taking splits all the time, but he does It is important to get swimmers in the right circles. Some need to know what's happening. swimmers are like racehorses, they can only swim when they have Other equipment around the pool includes flashing lights that a stablemate with them. It means the coach may have to change can be adjusted to a certain pace. These lights can be underwater, circles for every set and for every workout. He has to watch for along the side of the pool or mounted on the ceiling for back- this constantly if he is to set up his pace ideas and pace strokers. We had them 25 years ago in England and I am sure groupings. that they were in use long before then. It is demoralizing to have The way a circle is used is important as well. For example, if the squad continuously train against this device and it's difficult the coach has an eight lane pool and every circle is swum clock- to fit the entire team against the lights, but it is something that wise, he will find the times are slower than if the circles are alter- can be used. nated in directiorL It has a lot to do with the tow, or flow of the Theuse of soundwaves in a self-contained unit on the athlete is water--the lift that the swimmer is getting from the other another way to teach pace. We have one of the new units but swimmers going in his direction. If the two circles come down by haven't been able to give it a thorough evaluation yet. Actual pool side by side, there is a stream of swimmers bringing water radio contact with the athlete is something we used many years with them and it is almost a downhill current. The light swim- ago. The athlete had a small earplug and a unit attached to him mers, females and young boys, can just skip along as if it is a 4 SWIMMING WORLD downhill race all the way. A coach can regulate this situation so things at different places in a race. If the coach breaks the dis- that he doesn't get false readings from the repeat times in tances up into different units, a swimmer is going to work more practice, or use the situation to give the swimmers a mental conscientiously to get a pattern. For instance, the 400 could be boost.